CEM would like to congratulate Prof. Joseph Heremans, (Depts. of 
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Physics) on being named to the National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Heremans was chosen for his discoveries in thermal energy transfer and conversion to electricity and for the commercial devices employed in automobiles. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions that may be accorded to an individual engineer during their lifetime. Read more here.
CEM Faculty Prof. Len Brillson selected as a 2013 MRS Fellow
CEM would like to congratulate CEM Faculty Member Prof. Len Brillson (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering) on his selection as a 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. This is a notable achievement considering that 0.2% of MRS members are selected to be Fellows. MRS is the fifth society to select Prof. Brillson as a Fellow. The other societies of which he is a Fellow exemplify the interdisciplinary nature of his research: American Physical Society (APS), AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Request for Proposals of IRGs for CEM Renewal
The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) is currently preparing the proposal for renewal of its funding from the NSF MRSEC program. A critical deadline in that process is approaching.
The deadline for prospective IRGs to submit proposals to participate in the CEM’s renewal proposal is January 15, 2013.
The full RFP, which describes how to submit the proposal, can be read here.
CEM Gingerbread Competition
Four labs were represented in the CEM Gingerbread Science Competition held on December 19th, 2012. Teams from the NanoSystems Lab, as well as Hammel, Johnston-Halperin and Gupta labs created representations of the work conducted in their labs entirely from edible materials. The Hammel lab team won the competition with their representation of an attocube tower and cantilever, movable graphene sample, oscilloscope, and cryogenic dewar.
The final creations of the teams can be seen at the NSL Kiosk on the 2nd floor south bridgeway in the Physics Research Building.
Seed Grant Program Now Accepting Proposals
The proposal process for the 2013 funding cycle of the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program has commenced. Full details, including the RFP, can be found here.